Petition to return to calling out people who say or do weird* ish. THIS IS WEIRD. Is he okay? Are people okay?!

(*and I don't mean that in a good way)

Some great submissions there *cough*

I agree. I'm not Ms. Rachel's target audience, nor do I have children, but I'm working hard on realising my wish to be able to buy some of her books in order to donate them as children's gifts to upcoming Christmas appeals. She appears to be spreading empathy and I'd love to be part of that.

Of all names on there, Aaron Rowe was the first to call and I respect that, because of all people involved, he is probably the one with the most to lose. I'm about to add him to my artists to listen to on Tidal. Rowe may not (yet) have the wealth to be able to pay crew for axed (thus unpaid) gigs.

life imitating art

PR couple

I'm glad kids love her. I'll happily be corrected if I'm wrong, but Ms. Rachel's books and videos actually seem informed by child pedagogy (in the same way Sesame Street is), rather than the (loud and) overwhelming/overstimulating child entertainment of some legacy media and other current YouTubers.

Also: Thank you for using Royal Mail. Their people seem to be the only professionals capable of finding my address (and doorbell)

...and people call *me* weird... good grief

I just took delivery of my order and I am over the moon!

They are so much nicer than any camera could capture, the card size is perfect, and the quality is superb. My expectations have truly been exceeded 🥰

Consider me baffled.

...would catch up with him... until a billionaire in his circles made phone calls and forced out his true colours, and those true colours don't know or no longer know what they really are, and/or he/his brand can only operate on financial/commercial risk/benefit analyses... and got it badly wrong.

...consideration. People left happy. I respect that graft.

But I think the privileged never-poor white British man with the Irish name and heritage may have "LOOK! I'M GINGER AND IRISH"ed a bit too close to sun here. It was always a performance, but perhaps he never thought it neither could nor...

...maybe, somehow, he is still owned by others?

I used to live right by Wembley Stadium and observed the crowds each time he came and sold out multiple nights, 90K people a pop. I used to respect his people-pleasing gig appeoach, even if it was more on commercial grounds than purely human...

...are he and his people to not anticipate how that would work out? Baffling to me.

Sheeran has something many of us envy: F*** you money.

And yet he's choosing not to use it, or he's thinking commercially but backwards, based on perceived or assumed public sentiments of bygone eras, or...

...global Irish diaspora.

His motivations were always commercial.

And that's his decision, which, you know, fine, but to package (PR-wise) the power of billionaire Robert Kraft as, somehow, the supposed greater interest of his paying audiences is so disingenuous, how detached from reality...

bizar

Good, that negates any "but the fans" defence Sheeran's PR was no doubt planning.

Also, has anyone checked how many of those stadiums/venues that threatened to cancel Sheeran's gigs if he didn't drop Macklemore hosted, say, Kanye's tour?

Meanwhile, please don't mind me juxtaposing this with THIS:

I hope Masuke feels better soon 🥰